The Pineapple Coffee That Wasn't

I read about Pineapple Coffee on Mun's blog and I was curious.

Yes, I have seen this item on Red Kettle's menu and I thought it was weird. To me coffee + anything other than milk is strange.

In fact when I read about bulletproof coffee (coffee + butter) I thought - yuks! But I have since embraced butter coffee (thanks to Mun) and it was delicious when I made it at home.

So I was at Red Kettle. I ordered the Roasted Chicken & Garlic Potato and feeling adventurous, I also ordered Pineapple Coffee.

This came to the table. Eh? Where is the coffee?

I took a sip and wah! Nice! Judging from the dark bottle, this must be a fermented drink - Tepache. It was a bit sweet for me, either they added sugar or the fermentation was stopped before it got too tart.

Information about this drink.

This is the Roasted Chicken & Garlic Potatoes.

The potatoes were under the chicken.

The potato wedges were mushy and overall this meal was all right, nothing exciting. When I went to the counter to pay, I mentioned to the manager that my Pineapple Coffee did not have coffee!

It turned out that I was served Fizzy Pineapple instead. In fact he told me that personally he doesn't like Pineapple Coffee. LOL! No worries about the wrong item because I enjoyed the Pineapple Tepache.

Then I went to Popular Bookstore and I spotted this Malay horror novel. 

Then I went to this shelf to check Boey's other book - How Was Your Day. There was only one book left (there were 4 or 5 a few weeks earlier).

So I ended up buying the book at 10% member discount. I haven't read it yet.

Speaking of Tepache, when I peeled a pineapple for my partner, I decided to save the peel and core. Instead of relegating the pineapple waste to the compost bin, I decided to make Tepache again.

Fermentation was active on the second day.

On day 3 I tasted the liquid and it was not so sweet anymore and was a little bit tart.

I strained and bottled the liquid.

The liquid is pale because I did not add pineapple flesh like I did previously. I dare not put all the liquid into one bottle for fear that there was not enough space to contain the gas (it might overflow).

A day later I sample some. It was not visibly fizzy but I could feel the fizz when I drank the Tepache. Not bad at all!